What is the code for a person coming in to the Dr. with this condition?
Posted on 05/28/2013 12:35:39 AM PDT by Olog-hai
In a little-noticed speech to the Iowa Republican Party this month, Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul mocked President Obama’s signature health care overhaul, noting the 122,000 new medical diagnostic codes doctors will have to use in order to inform the government about injuries sustained by Americans.
Those codes, said Sen. Paul, a medical doctor himself, include line-items for “injuries sustained from a turtle,” “walking into a lamppost” and “injuries sustained from burning water skis.”
Paul has attracted attention in recent weeks for spending time in the Hawkeye State, because it will be among the first states to weigh in during the 2016 Republican presidential primary season. …
“Included among these codes,” he told the Iowa Republicans during a May 10 dinner event, “will be 312 new codes for injuries from animals: 72 new codes for injuries just from birds; nine new codes for ‘injuries from the macaw.’ The macaw? … I’ve asked physicians all over the country, ‘Have you ever seen an injury from a macaw?’” …
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He does know his stuff on this score. I wonder how support for the bill would have fared if this kind of detail came out in the press earlier.Rand Paul claims Obamacare will include diagnostic codes for injuries sustained from a turtle, walking into a lamppost and burning water skis
He is confusing the requirement to shift from ICD-9 coding to ICD-10 coding with Obamacare, or the so-called Affordable Care Act (AFA).
The rest of the world has been on the very complex ICD-10 International Disease Classification system for years, and we’re now switching in the USA. The difference here is that we use this ICD coding to determine payment levels (and have done so for many years, whereas the rest of the world uses it to classify diseases, injuries, etc. but not for payment level determines).
The shift from the simpler ICD-9 to the very complex ICD-10 is extremely costly for healthcare providers. It would have happened with or without the AFA, however.
Determines = determinations.
Why, what’s driving the IC9 to IC10 shift if not the AHA?
F'rinstnce .. Let A = animal and B = break, thus an AB is a break due to an animal.
Now add 1 for mammal and 2 for marsupial and you can easily be kicked by a kangaroo and have your head bashed in.
Let (a) = age 0 - 10 and (b) = 10 - 20 .. etc., and the coding gets more complicated.
Now, I've invented these numbers, but that's the way it was explained to me.
IC = ICD
I ran into a turtle on my burning water skis and was flung into a pier lamp-post.
- Burning Skis of Fire
What is the code if the water, the turtle, the lamp post, and the skier are all burning?
Stupid 1 ah+
The macaw? … I’ve asked physicians all over the country, ‘Have you ever seen an injury from a macaw?’” …>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I wish Rand Paul would come right out and say it.
These codes are the basis for embezzlement from the health system by those physicians who are immune from prosecution because of personal future political connections to the fascist left represented by Obama and his minions, and the selective prosecutions of WEric Holder and what used to be the DOJ but now is the DOT ( Dept. of Tyranny).
The grift is already in. Payments will be made for curing these arcane injuries which do not, and will never exist.
One category was left out by the Obama Care administrators:
Obama$$itus: injury from being cornholed by the president.As a matter of fact its the major injury caused to virtually everyone in America but yet there is no code for it.
THAT would not surprise me even a little. You prolly broke some toes while you were at it.
I wonder if they have a diagnostic code for injuries sustained from viking kittens . . . (probably do, too)
...a moose bit my sister once
That injury is traditionally cured by being torn limb from limb and raped by Al Quaida.
Contact Malik Obama for an appointment.
What is the code for a person coming in to the Dr. with this condition?
Or you culd be injured by a knock on the head from a falling post-turtle.
The question for me is, if you go into see a Dr. for an injury sustained from a turtle, does the Dr. have to ask you whether the turtle is a purchased pet (er, companion animal), or one that was wild.
If the latter, I’d imagine that the Dr. would be obligated to inform the local/state Fish/Wildlife authorities on you, since doing anything that could be construed as interfering with wildlife is usually a criminal offense ...
a snapping turtle can do a lot of damage to a person.
That it can (1,000–1,500 psi jaw pressure), as can many animals. But excessive diagnostic codes can do a lot of damage to people’s wallets.
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